Update/Populate Radio buttons...

Fritz

Help... I am struggling with this...

I am doing an UPDATE form and pulling in the result of a radio button field... and can't figure out how to define 'checked' IN the form I am populating it with a YES response from a sql call...

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE= "<? print "$open"; ?>" checked>

THIS WILL create AND check a new button BUT I WANT to hide this and have either of the following checked based on $open data being pulled in...

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE="Yes">Yes

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE="No">No

Yes... I could do an IF statement to define 'checked' but that could get messy with other fields that may have a dozen radio options... I must be missing something easy here.

Clues?

patmcv

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE="Yes" <? echo $post=='Yes'?'Checked':''; ?>>Yes

Is this what you're after?

Fritz

Originally posted by patmcv
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE="Yes" <? echo $post=='Yes'?'Checked':''; ?>>Yes 
Is this what you're after? [/B]

Maybe...

<? echo $post=='Yes'?'Checked':''; ?>

Is this like an if/else type of variable? it really may be as simple as that... I'll give it a try...

I have actually done an If/else statement that will take care of a simple yes/no like this...

MY big problem is more related to a radio or check box list with literally 80 options...

I could do ... this...

if ($category == "Shops") {$catcheck1 = "checked"; } else { $catcheck1="";}
if ($category == "Crafts") {$catcheck2 = "checked"; } else { $catcheck2="";}

and then this in the form...

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="category" VALUE="Shops" <? print "$catcheck1"; ?> >Online Pagan Store  

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="category" VALUE="Crafts" <? print "$catcheck2"; ?> >Original Crafts  

BUT then I would have to manually number all the other options

All I am really trying to find an easy way to do ...

bring in value A in an UPDATE statement and have the corresponding Radio button or check box tickled as active. .

Fritz

Originally posted by patmcv
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="open" VALUE="Yes" <? echo $post=='Yes'?'Checked':''; ?>>Yes 
Is this what you're after? [/B]

I was excited about this... but it returns an error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE

I tried it with this....

<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="category" VALUE="Shops"  <?_echo_$category=='Shops'?'Checked':'';_?>>Online Store

Are you sure the syntax is correct?

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